PK First Week Collections Zoom Ahead of those for Dhoom 3, Happy New Year!

The Christmas holiday brought plenty of cheers to the makers of PK with record-breaking first week collections. The movie earned around 27 crores at the domestic box office on Thursday, which was more than the first day collection!

Strong weekday collections along with that for the holidays have propelled the first week collections to a stupendous figure of around 180 crores. It has beaten the likes of Dhoom 3, which held the previous record of 172 crores. The Wednesday collections were around 19 crores, buoyed by the Christmas holiday. PK crossed the 150 crore-mark in just six days of its release.

The film has seen excellent overseas collections too, having now crossed the 250 crore mark worldwide. With domestic collections of around 180 crore and that ofoverseas reportedly around the 270 crore mark in its first week, it can be safely said that Aamir Khan and Rajkumar Hirani have worked their magic again!